Nouns
The definition for a noun
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
The definition of a verb
What is a word that expresses an action or a state of being?
The definition of an adjective
What is a word that describes or modifies a noun?
The definition of a conjunction
What is a word that connects two words, phrases, or clauses?
The definition of a pronoun
What is a word that takes the place of a noun?
How many nouns are in the following sentence:
The boy and girl quickly fell in love.
What is 3 nouns?
(boy, girl, love)
The three tenses of verbs
What are past, present, and future?
The definition of an adverb
What is a word that describes or modifies a verb?
What is a word that demonstrates the relationship between nouns or pronouns?
Identify which of the following is NOT a pronoun:
he, it, they, sister, she, us
What is sister?
A unique quality of proper nouns
What is they are always capitalized?
Identify the verbs in the following sentence:
Eleven ate her Eggos and then destroyed the Demigorgon.
What are ate and destroyed?
Identify the adjectives in the following sentence:
The greasy pizza came with spicy pepperoni, black olives, and mozzarella cheese.
What are greasy, spicy, black, mozzarella?
Identify the conjunction and preposition in the following sentence:
After consuming radioactive ooze, the teenage turtles became ninjas and heroes.
What is preposition = after and conjunction = and?
The term for the word that the pronoun refers to
What is the antecedent?
What is collective?
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence:
After the intense game of basketball, we were tired.
What is were?
Identify the adverbs in the following sentence:
Quickly moving the beds together, the step brothers efficiently made more room for activities.
What are quickly and efficiently?
Identify the prepositions in the following sentence:
Go down the stairs and through the door.
What are down and through?
Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun:
I love my family but ______ drive me crazy sometimes.
What is they?
When Jim pulled a prank on Dwight, the entire office laughed at the event.
What are Jim, prank, Dwight, office, event
Identify the verb and the subject it refers to in the following sentence:
Ron Swanson hates the government.
What is verb = hates and subject = Ron Swanson?
Insert adjectives and adverbs into the following sentence:
The _____ warrior ______ moved through the _____ battlefield.
Answers will vary.
The mnemonic FANBOYS helps us to remember conjunctions. FANBOYS stands for these words.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
What is the problem with the following sentence:
The red-headed girl was very nervous and tripped over his dress as he walked down the aisle.
What is pronoun-antecedent disagreement?